HC discover to EC over Devikulam seat reservation

By Express News Service
IDUKKI: The High Court has issued a discover to the Election Commission (EC) on a petition opposing the fee’s resolution to maintain Devikulam as a Scheduled Caste reserved meeting seat for the previous 63 years. The fee has been requested to reply by January 27.

According to Infent Thomas, a Congress chief who filed the petition, the change of standing ought to have occurred after three phrases. “The seat was not reserved in 1957. However, it became an SC reserved seat in the next election and has remained so for these many years, despite there being rules which specify that any assembly constituency can’t remain reserved for over three consecutive terms,” he stated. 

Infent stated that 52.7 per cent of voters within the 12 grama panchayats constituting Devikulam meeting constituency belong to the overall class, whereas solely 27.8 per cent of the voters are within the SC class and 10.4 per cent within the ST class.

According to him, the area is falling again on growth as a number of leaders from Munnar and never Devikulam contest from the seat. “If steps had been initiated during the 2016 delimitation process, Devikulam would have ceased to be an SC reserved seat,” he stated.